(: Combined studies with a five year old :)

This weekend I was casually reading through a technical manual. A lazy Saturday morning sitting on my sofa, legs stretched with few pages of manual in my hand. I was doing this just to convince myself that I was not wasting my weekends completely!! Whatever!! It was relaxing and nice. Amma went out to buy vegetables. On her way back she went to a neighbors place. She brought along with her our neighbors five year old grand daughter. She was getting bored at her place so she came along with amma. As she entered she noticed that I was reading something.
With a 5 year old's curiosity she asked me "Are you doing homework"? I replied "Hmmm....I am reading a technical manual". Then suddenly something flashed and I said "Yes I am doing my Homework". (I was indeed doing my homework for the weekend :) ) She quickly replied" I have to finish my drawing homework". She ran back to her place and got a sketch pen set and a drawing book. She sat next to me and started drawing. I recollected my nursery days. I was my drawing teachers nightmare. I was really hopeless at that. Even today i remember the plant I had drawn with a flower and leaves. The leaves were looking more beautiful than the flower I had drawn (relatively of course!!).
As she started drawing I started to ask her questions and give my own stupid answers. “Are you drawing a sun? Fill it with red......Red looks very good " etc.....( The drawing genius giving his golden tips to a five year old lol). She patiently listened to all my non sense. After a while I got back to my Tech manual (Thank god I did that!!). For a 5 year old she was remarkably quiet. Once I got into that manual I was into my own world. After twenty odd minutes she got up. She said "I finished my homework". I just took the drawing sheet from her and started to figure out what she had drawn. For a five year old she had done very well. There was much more than a Red colored rising sun!!
I asked her to explain what she had drawn. She started "Sun is shining so it is a day. There is an ice cream trolley. A boy has bought two ice creams and he is carrying one in each hands. There is a girl who is playing with
A heart shaped balloon (was that her heart!). The boy is eating one ice cream and carrying the other ice cream for the girl playing with the balloon!!!!!!!” She imagined and captured so much in twenty odd minutes!!! All I had managed was five pages of my technical Manual!
Imagination has nothing to do with the age or experience. We have all heard about this and may even believe in it. When someone actually demonstrates this we will be dumbstruck!! I learnt one real good lesson for life!! Anyone can teach us a lesson. It is up to us to learn from them!
Sayonara :)